FULL SUMMARY:
Christian Tucker is a child of Apollo and her demigod mother at the age of 17. She's been fighting her whole life to protect her siblings from monsters. When her and her family finally settle down her mother is killed and she's left alone with her 3 siblings to make it to Camp Half-Blood. What they're all hoping to find there is peace, safety and family and the option to stop running. Upon arrival to CHB she gets more than what she bargained for and life gets more hectic as she falls for a certain Golden Boy and enters a weird love square and has a quest to complete for her father. Rated T-M slow burn
CHARACTERS AS MENTIONED:
The Tucker's:
Mary Tucker - Mother - child of Aphrodite- Deceased.
Christian Tucker - 17 - daughter of Apollo and Mary.
Blaise Tucker - 15 - son of Ares and Mary.
Maya Tucker - 12 - daughter of Hephaestus and Mary.
Courtney Tucker - 7 - mundane - daughter of Mary.
The Grace's:
Jason Grace - 19 - Son of Jupiter
The Jackson's:
Percy Jackson - 20 - Son of Poseidon
Apollo cabin:
Will Solace - 21
Cody - 17
Kayla- 18
DISCLAIMER:
This story belongs to Rick Riordan. I'm just borrowing his characters.
CHAPTER 3: Camp Half-Blood
When I wake up I'm screaming. I swing my legs off of the bed and begin fighting the person trying to hold me down.
"No," I yell. My throat hurts a lot.
I can't think straight. Where's Courtney? Did Blaise and Maya make it in safe? Where's the Minotaur?
The blonde in front of me is trying not to hurt me while we fight. His hits aren't really hits. He's more trying to subdue me then fight me, actually.
"Christian," I hear a little voice yell. I recognize its Courtney.
I cease fighting and turn in the direction I hear her. She's standing there in an orange shirt, her face is clean, and her hair has been braided back into two ponytails that hang by her shoulders.
I fall onto my knees and crawl to her, grabbing her and pulling her to my chest. I don't realize I'm crying until she start wiping the tears from my face.
"I thought I had lost you. I thought I failed you guys. I thought we were done for-"
"Shh," she whispers. "It's okay Christian. You did it. We made it."
I look into her brown eyes and hug her tight again. I wipe my tears away and stand up.
The blond I had just fought was standing there awkwardly turned away from the scene Courtney and I had shared.
I clear my throat. He turns on his heel and smiles even more awkwardly.
"Umm. I'm sorry about that," I whisper, "I'm not sure what took over me."
He smiles genuinely now and extends a hand that has weird tattoos on it for me to shake.
"It's okay. You fell unconscious in battle it only makes sense for you to wake up that way."
I shake the hand.
"I'm Jason Grace, by the way."
I nod my head. "Christian Tucker."
We let go of each other's hands and he begins telling me that I could shower here in the Big House and that he would be waiting for me on the porch.
When Courtney and Jason have gone i slump on the bed and breathe deeply.
We made it.
-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/
When I come out of the house, Jason is sitting in a chair around a table with a man in a wheelchair, another man in a pretty hipster looking Hawaiian shirt and a boy with horns growing from his curly mop of hair.
Jason's eyes catch my own and he smiles.
"Christian come over here," he says pulling up a chair to their table.
I sit in it and look each person in their face. My mom always taught me that establishing authority was always important when meeting new people.
The man in the wheelchair has kind eyes. The satyr, that I thought was a boy, has wise but young eyes. When I look into the eyes of the Hawaiian shirt guy I feel insanity grip my mind. I immediately release the stare.
"How'd you get here little girl," the shirt guy says.
"Dionysus. You're being rude again," says the wheelchair guy.
He shrugs his shoulders indifferently.
"My mother sent me," I say.
"Who's your mother," said the wheelchair man, "I'm being very rude. Let me introduce everyone. I am Chiron. This here is Dionysus, Grover the Satyr and Jason Grace son of Zeus."
"Jupiter."
"Jupiter," Chiron says.
I nod my head slowly before I answer.
"My mother is- was Mary Tucker."
"I knew her," Chiron whispers.
"You knew my mother?!" Im feeling both excited and dreadful.
He nods.
"Can someone explain what's going on here, just a little," I ask.
"Well, Christian, you're a demigod and this camp is made for people like you. Half humans half gods. In your case a little more godly than human."
"Why is that?"
"Because you're mother, Mary, was a demigod as well. One of the most talented Charmspeakers that the Aphrodite cabin has ever had."
I feel my brain working overtime.
"Charmspeakers?"
"The ability to persuade people into doing things with your words. A skill only a few children of Aphrodite can accomplish," he explains.
I grab my head now as I begin thinking about the day my mother died and a look of worry crosses Grover's face.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing," I whisper.
The table falls silent then Jason speaks up.
"I'll take her and show her around camp."
We leave the table and begin walking away from the Big House. I can feel my wet curly hair slapping against my neck when Jason says something.
"What do you know about your life?"
I look into his blue eyes and see that he's being genuine.
"I-Im a demigod."
"Have you always known?"
I shake my head. My mother never said a thing to us about our godliness. It was something that I happened to pick up on when I was in school and Greek mythology was being taught. The monsters that had been haunting my family were being taught in the classroom as mythological. When the teacher began explaining these stories of the great demigods that slayed these monsters I knew that my siblings and I were one of them.
It explained my ability to use the bow and arrow so well without being taught or how well I was with medicine and herbs. It helped me understand why Maya was so great at tinkering and why Blaise was great in combat and could get a group of people to fight along side of him.
"So you found out yourself," Jason asked.
I nod.
"It was weird when I brought the idea up to her."
She cried and cried. She said that my realization would mean more monsters and more running. And sure enough that's what we did. We ran more. We fought more.
"So do you know who you're godly parent is?"
I nod.
"I'm pretty sure it's Apollo. My brother, Blaise, is a son of Ares and my sister, Maya, is the daughter of Hephaestus."
"What about Courtney?"
"She's mundane."
"Really? How do you know," he asks.
"We lived with her father for a time. I think he was a demigod too. He was an Apollo kid too, I think. He was the one that helped me refine my healing skills. I guess she's godly but not godly enough to get through the force field here. It's a little weird though. She can see things just as clearly as we do, but other people can't," I explain.
He nods. "She can see through the mist."
"Mist?"
"It's like magic, I guess. It's a coverup for all things mortals can't handle. It manipulates what they see. Instead of seeing teenaged kids holding swords, they probably see us waving guns around. It helps to make demigods lives easier."
I nod my head slowly because neither of those sounds good.
"So you didn't know you're mom was a demigod?"
I shake my head.
My mom had always acted pretty normal when we weren't running. She did normal things like being a mom and going out and putting on makeup. We never saw her do any "magical" things except a few times.
"Like when?"
"There were a lot of times but the most shocking one is from the day she died."
He stops in his tracks and looks at me.
"I'm sorry."
I shrug my shoulders.
"Life happens. It was that or become a lycanthrope. But anyways she told the werewolf to kill himself and he did. He picked up a silver rod and stabbed himself through the heart."
I shudder. "It all makes sense now. She's the daughter of Aphrodite. It was all really strange. My mom had always kept her cool. Now that I think back I can't remember my mom ever fighting. She would tell us to run and we would and when she'd catch up to us she was bruised but weaponless. There was a time she convinced a giant to stop chasing us. We saw a lot of weird things."
"I think it's amazing that you got you and your siblings here. You had a nasty bruise spreading on your chest."
I feel my face flush, but my dark skin prevents it from showing. I think he notices my discomfort.
"Not that I actually saw your like-you know- chest area. Will told me about it," he stammers red in the face.
I fidget at the idea that two boys talked about my chest and I think he notices his blunder.
He straightens up. "I had to know because I offered to watch you while you slept and feed you ambrosia. Not because we're pervs or anything like that."
I can't help but laugh at his display at trying to gain control of the situation. He looks down at me and cracks a smile as well.
By the time I notice where we've walked to we're in the center of the camp.
"Let me show you your cabin."
I follow him to a cabin that appeared like any other cabin I had seen on television. Two golden pillars stood near the double doors, a lyre symbol was above the door and the sound of music could be heard radiating from inside.
When the clouds parted and the sun hit the cabin it glowed. I realized the cabin was made of solid gold.
"This is Cabin 7," Jason said.
The door opened and there was a blond standing in the doorway. He had blue eyes and shaggy blond hair that fell into his eyes and a silly grin on his face. He was wearing scrubs like that of nurses.
"And that's Will-"
"Will Solace," the blond named Will said. "I'm head of the Apollo cabin and head at the infirmary. What's your name?"
The radiating smile on his face was welcoming and I smiled too.
"I'm Christian Tucker."
"Well Christian it's going to be amazing having you in the Apollo cabin. I have to head to the infirmary. I'll see you at dinner tonight."
After that he left.
"We can finish the tour later if you want to-"
I cut Jason off. "We can finish."
He smiled and it was then that I noticed the scar on his lip. It was oddly beautiful.
"So tell me about you," I say.
"Like what?"
"I'm not sure. You're the child of Zeus-Jupiter, right? Do you fly around like superman but blonder?"
He begins laughing. I smile a little at the fact that I said something amusing.
"It's just Jupiter. He's the roman version of Zeus but that's a whole 'nother history lesson. But yeah I guess I do fly around. I can summon the winds," he says creating a small tornado in his hand, "storms and lightning every once in a while." He says while floating around me.
"Wow. I don't do anything like that," I laugh.
"It doesn't always just show up. With practice or under some serious pressure they reveal themselves. You'll get there don't worry. I'm pretty sure you'll excel out here at CHB. I'll personally make sure of it."
I nod my head and feel my face grow warmer at his kindness.
"You're glowing."
I snap my eyes at his face. "Huh."
"Like just now you were glowing. Why?"
"I was 'blushing'."
He lifts an eyebrow and we continue our walk. He shows me the showers and the dining area, and all sorts of different spots around the camp. The amphitheater and archery range being my two favorites.
"So do you sing?"
I shrug my shoulders. "I haven't in a few years."
"Why's that?"
"I didn't have much to sing for. I wasn't happy so I didn't sing."
He nods his head and we end up back by the cabins. I see a cabin that reminds me of Jason and asks if that's where he and his siblings live.
"No it's just me. I do have a sister but she's with Artemis. I live alone."
When I asked why he began explaining about the Big Three and the promise they had made to not have kids.
Him talking about his lack of siblings reminded me of my own.
"Jason where are my brother and sisters?"
"Your brother is with the Ares cabin and your sister Hephaestus. Upon arrival they were claimed."
"What about my youngest sister? She doesn't have a godly parent. She's only 7 there's no where for her to go."
"Usually demigods who aren't claimed go to the Hermes cabin, but your sister isn't a demigod."
"She needs to be with me," I say firmly.
"That's not possible."
"Why?!"
"She can't stay in the other cabins. The cabins are meant for children of that god," he says.
I glare at him feeling my anger slowly boil.
"Well that's okay. I guess we'll be leaving to a place where they don't separate little girls from their caretakers." With that I walk away to go find my little sister.
I find her walking around with a guy that introduced himself as Pollux. He was making the strawberries grow.
Courtney was walking with him talking to the plants and trying to coax them to grow.
"Come on," she whispers, "grow for me so you can get big and strong so that you can feed the campers, like me!" She's smiling at the plant lovingly. For a split second I think my eyes deceive me because it does appear to grow just a little.
When she's done she spots me and gives me a giant hug.
"Pollux is showing me how to grow the plants," she says ecstatically.
I smile at her and the worry I had earlier about her being anywhere but under me subsides. I rub her back in circles a few times before she's urging me to sit and talk to one of the plants.
I try for an hour to coax it into growing a little but it doesn't. Courtney laughs and tells me I'm a bad talker.
Between the time spent walking around with Jason and time spent in the strawberry field it had gotten dark outside. Courtney and I walk to the bathrooms and wash our hands off. I help her clean under her nails and get the dirt debris from her face.
When we walk into the dining pavilion everyone is already seated. Courtney leads me to where Chiron is. He's now a centaur, with the body of a white stallion. He smiles at us as we approach. A girl is at the table with him. She has red hair and a freckled face. There are paint splatters on her orange camp T-shirt.
Courtney plants herself next to the redhead.
"Christian this is Rachel," Courtney says.
Rachel and I shake hands. I sit at the table and turn to Chiron.
"Chiron, I'm worried about Courtney," I whisper.
He frowns. "Why would you be worried?"
"Because she's not a full on demigod. Where would she stay?"
"I thought it'd be good for her to stay in the big house. She'd have her own room and she'd be under the supervision of Dionysus, Rachel and I. Demigod or not she's too godly to be in the mortal world and too young, might I add. But primarily it is up to you."
"So she'd be safe? And it's better than the Hermes cabin," I said throwing a glance at the table of kids that were engaging in a mini food fight.
Chiron laughs. "Yes much better."
I smile big. "Okay then. I can agree, but I want to be able to check on her when I see fit."
"That's fair enough," he says with a nod.
"Thank you so much Chiron."
"You're welcome."
I get up from the table and follow the sound of Will calling my name and beckoning me over to sit.
The Apollo table has about 8 kids including me. They welcome me cheerily and I sorta feel at home with these rhyming, sing-songy kids.
Before I eat Will tells me it's custom to give an offering to the gods. I pick up my plate that's filled with my favorite foods and scrape some food into the fire. The smell that wafts up my nose reminds me of summer time and when my mom would cut up pineapple slices and serve us lemonade on the porch that had belonged to her grandfather.
I send a silent thank you to my father who I'm pretty sure sent the car for us.
I walk back and eat as much as I can off of my plate.
"Usually we go to the amphitheater and sing songs around a campfire but today is capture the flag," Kayla whispers in my ear excitedly.
Capture the flag was an easy game to play. I didn't understand what the excitement was about.
I watch as Jason and a dark haired boy stand up on a table.
"Percy and I-"
"Yes I like how you said my name first," the guy named Percy says. Jason rolls his eyes.
"Jason, which is me, and the water boy over there will be team captains for this game of Capture the flag."
The different cabins erupt in cheers especially the Ares cabin where I can spot my brother. He smiles at me and I smile back.
Jason turns to Percy. "Ladies first." I smirk at the gesture Jason makes.
"I want the Ares cabin."
"Touché. I'll have the Hephaestus cabin."
They go back and forth until we're all on teams. Jason leads the Hephaestus, Apollo, Nike, Hecate, Demeter, Aphrodite and Dionysus. Percy has the Athena, Hermes, Hades, Hypnos, Iris, Hebe and Tyche cabins.
We split into the groups. Jason explains to us his plan. A girl with a feather in her head is glued to his side. I figure that's his girlfriend.
They whisper to each other and he modifies the plan. I get put on guard duty up high protecting the flag with another one of my half siblings. He's super nervous.
"I'm not that good at archery. They know that. I don't understand why they put me up here," he says.
I try soothing him with a few jokes but he's right back to nerves as soon as the games begin.
I'm wearing a helmet that has white plumes on it. The armor I'm wearing is way to heavy so I shed it, only keeping the helmet and breastplate on.
I have my arrow ready to take down anyone that comes by. I hear people before I see them. The Ares cabin is charging our way and I begin picking them down. I'm not really sure if maiming is a thing out here so I try to scare them off at first.
When knocking they're helmets off or knocking they're swords out of their hands wasn't working, I started aiming to hurt them. A few of them are smart and retreat.
The nervous kid, Cody, is back by my side. "That was amazing. You really know how to use the bow, sis!"
"I thought all Apollo kids were good at it?"
"No," he says with a look like 'I wish'. "It's like dancing. All Apollo kids can do it, it doesn't mean they're great at it. I'm barely average. Now you, you're amazing. You didn't miss a single shot."
I nod my head and I feel myself blushing.
"You're glowing again."
I jump at the voice and have my arrow ready to be released at their chest.
It's Jason. He has his hands up in the air and a smirk on his face.
I release the arrow slowly.
"I just came to help you guys protect the flag. I know Percy is gonna try something crazy."
He smiles at me and I feel bad. The first being because I was going to release an arrow in his chest and secondly for my rash behavior earlier. And not to mention trying to kill him this morning.
"Umm. Jason?"
"Yeah."
"I just wanted to apologize for getting mad earlier, when you gave me the tour. I didn't mean to snap. I just get sensitive about my little brother and sisters," I say sheepishly.
He cracks a bright smile and plants his hand on my shoulder.
"It's okay. I'd probably be the same with my sister if she would let me. No hard feelings about it. You're doing what you think is right."
"Thanks."
"No problem. You ready for this," he asks facing the clearing.
I nod my head and turn back to face the same way. As if right on cue I hear water rushing towards us and the smell of seawater. In the distance a huge tidal wave was heading straight for us. Percy with about 6 other campers, riding a wave headed straight for us.
"He's got his best fighters up there," Jason says with a smirk.
Cody groans. "How are we gonna win when you only have 3 of us here and only you two stand a chance?!" He's shaking while trying to get his bow ready.
"That's okay. We've got this," Jason says begin to float upwards. "Christian take out as many as you can. I'll handle Percy. Cody guard the flag."
I nod my head and nock an arrow that would explode. I aim it to fly next to the head of one of the campers. I set the bomb on and release the arrow. It explodes to the left of the camper and the explosion throws them off the wave.
Cody pumps his fist. I nock more arrows and begin picking off the campers. They're really close to us and Jason and Percy are fighting.
I can see fists connecting and heads butting. At one point Percy knocks Jason down with a wave of water but Jason comes back strong with a lightning bolt.
They've created a huge storm with rain and lightning and super strong winds. My arrows keep getting lost within the melee.
The two campers that are still riding jump off the wave and are charging Cody and I.
"Protect the flag!" I release and arrow and the it impales the one guy in his thigh. He falls to the ground and I turn to take care of the other person when I'm knocked down. I throw my bow aside and dodge a hit that would've left my face bruised. I stand back up and engage in hand to hand combat.
It's Blaise I'm fighting. There's a glow in his eyes and I smirk.
"You think you're gonna win," I huff dodging a hit.
"Of course. I'm bigger than you now," he retorts.
I throw myself at him and use all my weight to bring him down on the floor. When I'm on top of him I pull my knife from my boot and line it up to his throat.
There's a scowl on his face and a smirk on mine.
"Maybe next time little brother," I laugh getting up off of him and giving him to Cody to tie up with the other guy. I start healing his wounded thigh when Jason flies back with a tied up Percy and a bright sea green flag.
Percy is glaring at Jason while we celebrate. The walk back to the amphitheater is full of cheering, energetic faces and pats on my back.
"The things you did with that bow were amazing," Cody kept saying. He was telling everyone how cool it was. All the attention was making me blush.
As I was beginning to learn "blushing" caused me to glow.
Jason's arm was around my neck as he retold to everyone how I single handedly took out Percy's team. Percy vouches and they're laughing.
When we get to the amphitheater some of the Apollo kids have started singing a song while Will starts healing some campers with bad injuries. I go and help him.
"I heard about what you did out there," Will says clapping me on the back. I smile a little and bandage someone up.
"I didn't even really do anything. I just shot some arrows." That was normal.
"Arrows that connected with each target from what I heard. That's good."
I shrug my shoulders. "I'm not used to people giving me attention like this."
Will nods his head as he watches me bandage another camper.
"But it's nice," I say smiling at him.
He smiles back at me and a boy with slightly tanned skin and black, long shaggy hair strolls up to us. He's wearing a black aviator jacket over his orange Camp Half-Blood.
He and Will kiss and I'm introduced to Nico.
He smiles at me and I smile back.
"Will, we're all going to my cabin to hang out before the harpies start patrolling. You coming now?"
"Yup. I think I'm all done here," he says giving someone some ambrosia.
I feel awkward now because I'm not sure if I was invited to this get together. I feel my face get hot and Nico gives me an odd smirk.
"You're glowing."
"Yea," I laugh, "it's been happening a lot lately."
"Do you want to come with us? I want to hear about your story and I'm pretty sure the others do too," he says.
"Umm...yeah. I want to come."
He smiles as he leads me to his cabin. When we arrive his cabin is dark and gothic looking. The door is scary enough to make me feel like agreeing to come was a mistake.
"It's only really scary the first time," Will whispers in my ear.
I crack a smile at his reassurance. When we enter through the door there are a handful of kids in the room.
"I brought the party," Will says with a huge smiles and his hands in the air.
Nico shoves him. "It's not a party."
"When you have the kids of the Big Three in one place, it's a party."
Everyone laughs. I stand by the door looking at everyone. I make eye contact with Jason and he smiles big at me.
"Guys! Have you met Christian?!" He throwing his arm around my shoulder and pulling me into his side. I can feel all of his muscles flexing against me.
I already know I'm glowing before anyone points it out. Im introduced to everyone.
A Latino named Leo, his girlfriend Calypso, the girl with the feather was Piper, and Rachel again.
Someone offers me something to drink and before I know it I'm being asked a million questions.
"Where are you from?"
"How did you get here?"
"Do you really have half siblings with different godly parents but same mom?"
So I begin explaining that I'm from Florida and that I came here in a car that traveled at the speed of light and yes my brother and sister were my half siblings by godliness.
"How does that even happen," Percy questions.
I shrug my shoulders.
"It's rare to get two siblings from the same god, but for your mom to be a demigod and she have 3 kids with 3 different gods is pretty rare. I think you guys are the only I've ever heard about," Nico says.
"The real question everyone wants to know is how did you get so good at archery if you've never had training?" Will asks one hand around Nico.
I shrug again and smile.
"I don't know. When I was about 7 my mom gave me a bow and some arrows. She said healing wasn't gonna protect me from danger," I say.
"So she gave it to you and you were a natural?" Percy asks.
"No, of course not," I laugh. "I was horrible at first. It took time and practice. It wasn't like it was handed to me and all of a sudden the heavens parted and I was bestowed a gift. I practiced and by the time I was 10 I could shoot without missing my target."
"So no one taught you?"
I shake my head no. "There was no one to teach me. My mom wasn't really a fighter either. She was girly and she only turned warrior-like when we were running or fighting. Other than teaching us to protect ourselves she aimed to give us a normal life. Like going to school and playing sports. Things like that."
"You're mom did a good job."
"Yeah. She did. She tried her hardest to ensure that we survived," I whisper.
"Regardless you have great aim and now you're at camp you don't have to protect yourself alone anymore. We may be a camp of half siblings and cousins but we're a little more than that, and as corny as this is gonna sound, we're a family," Percy says.
Piper initiates a group hug and Will makes sure I'm in the middle of it. I really believed in what Percy said. We were a family.
I've always imagined Will to be about two years older than Percy. So in this fic he's about 21 and Nico is of age. I know that probably doesn't add up but I've never thought the age difference between Percy and Nico was huge. Anyways just to reiterate:
Percy is 20. Jason is 19. Nico is 18. Will is 21 maybe 22. Okay, Thank you for sticking around for this story3